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Episode 23: James and Per find their breakpoint

This time James and Per discuss usability rules and recommendations. Jakob Nielsen earlier this year updated his web design recommendation, saying that you should now design for around 1440 pixels wide. With this as a starting point we cover browser viewports, research,  recommendations, responsive web design and mobile web sites. Phew, all that and a little more in 29 minutes!

(Listening time 29 minutes)

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Episode 22: James and Per change names

In this show James and Per discuss web management. We take 3 recent examples where organisations have undertaken major changes to their web presence and investigate how it all went. What did they do well? what went wrong? what should they have done?

(Listening time 39 minutes, including 2 minutes of comedy intro)

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Episode 21: Per and James burn a sheep

In this episode James and Per talk about Sweden Social Web Camp. A yearly unconference held on an island off the south coast of Sweden. Per was there, James watched from afar. We discuss what the conference is about, how it works and what the whole experience is like – we even throw in few discussions about what could be improved and what could be be borrowed by other conferences.

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Episode 20: Per and James get beeped

A linkshow – In episode 20 of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom discuss three recent articles that they’ve found during their digital travels, discuss them and swear a little. This episode’s topics are…

  • Social media marketing – Barclay’s Facebook Debacle
  • The agency model – It’s f*cked
  • Visual marketing – adding images to your content

(Listening time 28 minutes)

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Episode 19: James and Per set your attributes

In this episode of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom take three recent articles that they’ve stumbled upon during their digital travels and discuss them.

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Episode 18: James and Per satisfy their clients

In this show we sat down at Kulturhuset in Stockholm together with Martin Christensen, user experience designer and agile coach, to talk about agile and how you apply it to multiple disciplines, including UX. Martin promised to give us a “silver bullet” solution for handling agile ux. Let’s listen and find out what it is…

(Listening time: 27 minutes)

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Episode 17: James and Per wrap up #UXLx 2012

This podcast is episode 6 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

Three jam-packed days of UXLx have whizzed by. 4 workshops, 4 lightning events, 10 conference talks, fair few glasses of wine and beer, an incredible number of conversations with a whole load of really smart people.

In this 6th and last podcast from Lisbon at UXLx we give you a quick roundup of our favourite talks from the conference day on Friday plus a few reflections from fellow conference attendees Lynsey Thornton and Celine O’Niell.

Finally a few reflections and take-homes from the entire event.

(Listening time: 28 minutes)

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Episode 16: James and Per have done all this research

This podcast is episode 5 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

It’s the end of day 2 here at UXLx and that means that we’ve finished the workshop part of the conference. This afternoons workshops were We’ve done all this research, now what? with Steve Portigal and Accessibillity for UX Designers with Derek Featherstone.

(Listening time: 13 minutes)

Episode 15: James and Per talk to Dave

This podcast is episode 4 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

During the lunch break of day 2 here at UXLx 2012 Per and James talked to Dave Gray, one of the co-authors of Gamestorming and one of the workshop holders here yesterday morning.

As well as talking to Dave about his workshop and preparation for it, we also got a few tips of gamestorming techniques that we as web and UX people could find useful.

In the second part of the show, we give you a few quick impressions from this mornings workshops.

(Listening time: 19 minutes)

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Episode 14: James and Per give a lecture

This podcast is episode 3 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

The afternoon of the first day of UXLx has included 2 lightning talks followed by a three hour workshop lecture. James and Per give you a quick run down and also talk about how workshops should be workshops.

(Listening time: 12 minutes)

Episode 13: James and Per cross channel gamestorm

This podcast is episode 2 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

It’s the end of the first morning here at #uxlx and we’ve got our first workshops under out belts. James took part in David Gray’s Gamestorming session whilst Per took part in Peter Morville’s Cross-Channel Strategy workshop.

Here’s our initial thoughts from right after lunch…

(Listening time 9 minutes)

Episode 12: James and Per conquer Garageband at UXLx

This podcast is episode 1 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2012

This week we are recording from UXLx in Lisbon Portugal. We are planning to record a number of podcasts and cover both the workshops on Wednesday and Thursday and then the conference day on Friday.

Episode 12 comes from James and Per’s hotel room at the Trip Oriente. We had quite a fight with Garageband and our new microphones, but eventually, hungry and tried we got it all to work.

(Listening time: 9 minutes)

Episode 11 – James and Per optimise and die

Craig Sullivan, optimiseordie on Twitter, joins us in episode 11 of UXPodcast to talk about the best way to go about creating a mobile site.

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Episode 10: James and Per practice Feng GUI

In Episode 9 of UXPodcast one of the topics we discussed was simulated eye tracking. In this episode, James and Per dedicate the entire show to discussing attention simulation tools. These are tools that use algorithms to analyse your website (or other visual media) to work out which part may attract attention.

After one failed attempted due to us missing that Tel Aviv changed to summer time, we’re were finally joined for this episode over Skype by Rafael Mizrahi, CEO of web based attention and attraction analysis tool Feng GUI.

We look into what the tool is, what it’s now, and importantly, in what situations it would it be useful to use it?

(37 minutes total listening time)

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Episode 9: Per and James hack your passw0rd

In this month’s episode of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom take four recent finds from their digital travels and discuss them.

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